Variety, the daily newspaper covering the entertainment industry, admonished Egyptian television in a Nov. 13 editorial for running its 41-part series called \”Horseman Without a Horse,\” a series which is based on the anti-Semitic tract \”Protocols of the Elders of Zion.\”
In 1949, 16-year-old Ernest Michel never dreamed that the very belt and pants he wore at Auschwitz would become treasured relics in a special exhibit.
Now serving his 17th year of incarceration Jonathan Jay Pollard, pleaded guilty in 1986 to spying for Israel.
These battleground spoils cannot explode or kill, but Israel considers them important benefits of its military operation in the West Bank: Thousands of documents, pamphlets and posters that provide written evidence of the Palestinian Authority\’s massive involvement in terrorism. The documents were captured at places like Yasser Arafat\’s headquarters in Ramallah and other P.A. offices, offices of the P.A.\’s Preventive Security Service and Arafat\’s Tanzim militia, Palestinian organizations throughout the West Bank and the Palestinian Liberation Organization\’s (PLO) Jerusalem headquarters at Orient House.
\n\”Once you\’ve tasted fame. It\’s very difficult to live without it.\”
The Skirball and the Huntington are located some 20 miles apart, but the institutions and their presidents existed in different worlds. The Huntington is situated in old-moneyed, Protestant San Marino, and its president is an old-line American of Norwegian descent.
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